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The City & the City (Meta)
◆◆ · Di benchen71 · Pubblicato 2022-08-30T06:00:58.640Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a fictional city
"The City & the City" (by 38 across) is a brilliant mind-melting weird-fiction detective/police-procedural novel. (It was also made into a BBC TV series, which while decent, paled in comparison.) Such a book deserves a similarly mind-melting meta! I think the major challenge here will be completing the grid; the meta should follow on pretty quickly after that. The answer you are looking for is a fictional city. Good luck! Answer & explanation here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=105007#p105007
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- kieranjboyd solved 2022-08-30T07:37:25.275Z
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- Laura M 30:56 · 2022-08-30T08:26:44.999ZPretty cool but a lot of work! Even after liberal Googling I still had to use the check function to find out that I still had 4 or 5 wrong letters in the grid :-) Thanks for the puzzle, and I'm putting the book on my reading list!
- The book is amazing! I sort of knew the grid would be difficult.
- Yes, very tough grid, particularly with missing letters that made the crossings very difficult. I had several letters wrong and had to peek to figure them out. Still... not a complaint! I think tough ones like this should be among the mix, and appreciate the creativity... thanks Ben!
- They're not everyone's cup of tea. But, as you say, there should be the occasional tough meta. Emphasis on "occasional"!
- Cindy Heisler 2s · 2022-08-30T15:41:09.854ZTough grid. The meta would have been easier if all my grid answers were correct. My bad!
- Qmark 6s · 2022-08-30T15:49:41.780ZVery challenging grid, but the payoff was worth it...didn't know the book but will definitely check it out...thanks Ben!
- It's a great book. And when you read it, you will appreciate this meta puzzle even more!
- whimsy 31:34 · 2022-08-30T17:57:32.835ZDidn't do too bad on the grid considering I don't seem to share a lot of Ben's interests. : ) Did do a considerable amount of checking to make sure I wasn't going off the track. A nice challenge -- Thanks, Ben!
- Ergcat 19:42 · 2022-08-30T18:21:46.217ZTricky grid ( like you said) but the path to the meta was pretty clear! Will have to check out the book! Thank you!
- I like a challenging grid, but this was the wrong sort of tough for my taste.
- I K Snamhcok 2s · 2022-08-31T15:28:04.520ZThanks, Ben. Your puzzles, and my boys and their wives, help me keep up with modern culture.
- Carolyn 3s · 2022-08-31T15:31:46.138ZI echo what many have said. Had several mistakes on the crosses which made this even harder. May have to read the book! Thanks for the challenge.
- Sharkicicles 20s · 2022-08-31T23:24:26.347ZI thought there was a step 2 until I gave up and googled “orciny”. ;) fun puzzle!
- ReB 33:44 · 2022-09-02T03:04:02.917ZGrid was very challenging and needed the check function. Then, once I took another look at the title and realized that there should be two cities intermixed in each theme answer, everything quickly fell into place. And when I googled the answer for confirmation, I found that indeed the answer as I anticipated was one of the two cities in the referenced book. I guess I'll learn the name of the other city if I read the book. (No, didn't google the book title.)Worth the effort. Very well plotted out.
- ReB 33:44 · 2022-09-02T03:14:51.950ZNice touch in the middle, after googling the book author.
- kurtalert 14:42 · 2022-09-05T16:00:12.857ZStruggled a lot to get the letters of the city in the right order- not sure if I missed part of the mechanism? Found the 6 letters pretty easily, though. Good puzzle!
- The letters of each city are in order, but there is no pattern as to which city's letter comes next other than trying to make the end result vaguely pronounceable.
- kurtalert 14:42 · 2022-09-07T14:51:43.995ZSorry- by "the city" - I meant the meta answer... I easily found the real city names and knew which letter was missing from each combination, but once I had ICONRY I wasn't able to sort those letters properly. I only figured it out by looking up that book and seeing that there was a city in it with those same 6 letters!
- Oh, that's when the numbers in brackets in the clues comes into it.
- kurtalert 14:42 · 2022-09-07T23:48:00.558ZUgh. I completely overlooked those... whoops!
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With 65 across: City where you can see the Eiffel Colosseum? (1)
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- 1AWith 65 across: City where you can see the Eiffel Colosseum? (1)
- 5APlayer of tracks with repetitive beats and synthesizers at a party (abbr.)
- 10A"Law & Order: SVU" actor
- 14AOrchestra tuner
- 15ALarge rock in the middle of Australia
- 16ATown on the island of Sicily that is also an anagram of ROAN
- 17ACity with the largest plaza de toros in the world made famous by a Psy music video? (4)
- 19AWhat you get when you reverse a lime
- 20A"Do not ___. Do not collect $200"
- 21ASmall basin next to a dentist's chair
- 23ASpanish appetizer
- 25A"___ much as is sufficient for thee" (Prov. 25:16, KJV)
- 26A"___ alaykum" (Arabic greeting that translates as "Peace be upon you")
- 30AKnowledge of the eternal forms or ideas
- 33A"Cyprus" in Slovakian
- 34A"Can we have ___?" (request in a restaurant)
- 36APoem of praise
- 37A"Three" in Lithuanian
- 38AAuthor of "The City & the City", ___ Miéville
- 39AGrasp firmly
- 40A"Goose" in French
- 41AFirst word of "the old Lie" according to Wilfred Owen
- 42A"Good" in Italian
- 43AJosh ___, of "How I Met Your Mother"
- 45ATrack 3 of Jacob Collier's amazing debut album, "In My Room"
- 47AIdentifies
- 49APrecious
- 50AAngry mood
- 53AOrange-red food coloring derived from the seeds of the achiote tree (var.)
- 57ALike a ___ to a flame
- 58ACity built on the confluence of the Thames and the Yamuna? (5)
- 60AHawaiian island
- 61ASuffix with trave- or mono-
- 62AArchitectural feature of St. Peter's Basilica
- 63AThird child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark who (spoiler alert) kills the Night King during the Battle of Winterfell
- 64AJavelin
- 65ASee 1 across
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- 1DElgar's "___ and Circumstance"
- 2DRhyming scheme for the quatrain that ends a villanelle
- 3DMonica's brother on "Friends"
- 4DAntares and Betelgeuse
- 5DMoon of Jupiter
- 6DTitle of R.E.M.'s rarities and B-sides collection (and then abbreviated)
- 7DFlood residues or spa supplies
- 8DFruit with a stone
- 9DActress, ___ Margulies of "ER" and "The Good Wife"
- 10DActually
- 11DCity overlooked by the Pyramids of Red Square? (3)
- 12D"___ go Bragh" (Ireland forever!)
- 13DWith 50 down: City known as the capital of Sumo Tlachtli? (6)
- 18D"Equals" in Romanian
- 22DThanks To Original Uploader (abbr.)
- 24DGian Carlo Menotti's one act opera, "___ and the Night Visitors"
- 26D43 across, for example
- 27DCountry ranked last on the Global Peace Index from 2016 to 2018
- 28DCity known for its Opera House built on the Swan River? (2)
- 29DAnn Arbor sch. which boasts Christine Lahti, Selma Blair, and Lucy Liu as alumni
- 31D___ Menzel, who sang "Let It Go"
- 32DProfessional Indian infantryman in the armies of the Mughal Empire
- 35DVirgil's epic poem (var.)
- 38DRemedies for every disease
- 39DJazz pianist Vince ___, whose trio did the music for "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
- 41DCommon typo made when one attempts to text the word "don't"
- 42DLongest-running weekly comic-book
- 44DGaffer tape brand that has the same first four letters as the Asian pear
- 46D___ than a door nail
- 48DCondescend
- 50DSee 13 down
- 51DCrowd sound
- 52DTom Cruise and Emily Blunt film, "___ of Tomorrow"
- 54DLead singer of Radiohead, ___ Yorke
- 55DCyndi Lauper song, "___ After ___"
- 56DSmall bills
- 59DThe USA, to Macron
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